Contrib Mineral Petrol (2013) 166:887 910 DOI 10.1007/s00410-013-0899-9 ORIGINAL PAPER Melts of garnet lherzolite: experiments, models and comparison to melts of pyroxenite and carbonated lherzolite Timothy L. Grove Eva S. Holbig Jay A. Barr Christy B. Till Michael J. Krawczynski Received: 18 September 2012 / Accepted: 28 May 2013 / Published online: 22 August 2013 Ó Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013 Abstract Phase equilibrium experiments on a compositionally modified olivine leucitite from the Tibetan plateau have been carried out from 2.2 to 2.8 GPa and 1,380 1,480 C. The experiments-produced liquids multiply saturated with spinel and garnet lherzolite phase assemblages (olivine, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene and spinel ± garnet) under nominally anhydrous conditions. These SiO 2 -undersaturated liquids and published experimental data are utilized to develop a predictive model for garnet lherzolite melting of compositionally variable mantle under anhydrous conditions over the pressure range of 1.9 6 GPa. The model estimates the major element compositions of garnet-saturated melts for a range of mantle lherzolite compositions and predicts the conditions of the spinel to garnet lherzolite phase transition for natural peridotite compositions at above-solidus temperatures and pressures. We compare our predicted garnet lherzolite melts to those of pyroxenite and carbonated lherzolite and develop criteria for distinguishing among melts of these different source types. We also use the model in conjunction with a published predictive model for plagioclase and spinel lherzolite to characterize the differences in major element composition for melts in the plagioclase, spinel and garnet facies and develop tests to distinguish between melts of these three lherzolite facies based on major elements. The model is applied to understand the source materials and conditions of melting for high-k lavas erupted in the Tibetan plateau, basanite nephelinite lavas erupted early in the evolution of Kilauea volcano, Hawaii, as well as younger tholeiitic to alkali lavas from Kilauea. Keywords Garnet lherzolite Mantle melting Tibetan Plateau Kilauea Hawaii Experimental petrology Introduction Communicated by G. Moore. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s00410-013-0899-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. T. L. Grove (&) E. S. Holbig J. A. Barr Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA e-mail: tlgrove@mit.edu C. B. Till US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA M. J. Krawczynski Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA Liquids in equilibrium with a garnet lherzolite phase assemblage (olivine, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene and garnet) and/or a garnet pyroxenite assemblage are produced when the Earth s mantle melts at depths greater than *60 km. Compositional characteristics of these melts can provide fundamental information on the conditions (pressure and temperature) and processes of melting. Few existing models constrain the temperature, pressure and composition of melts of garnet lherzolites. Longhi (2002) provided an experimental data set from 2.4 to 3.4 GPa and used his new experiments and literature data (Kinzler 1997; Walter and Presnall 1994) to develop a model for calculating the major element compositions of melts of garnet lherzolite. Gudfinnsson and Presnall (2005) developed discriminant diagrams using CaO, MgO, Al 2 O 3 and SiO 2
888 Contrib Mineral Petrol (2013) 166:887 910 co-variations to identify compositional trends specific to garnet lherzolite melts. Herzberg and Asimow (2008) provide a model that extends into pressures of garnet lherzolite stability that also utilizes some of the data used by Longhi (2002). These pioneering studies and models have provided a framework for further identifying and studying deep mantle melts, but have been necessarily limited in scope for reasons discussed below. There are several reasons why so few garnet lherzolitesaturated liquids are reported in the experimental literature. The first concerns direct melting experiments that use lherzolite as a starting material. Clinopyroxene and garnet are exhausted at relatively low extents of melting, and measuring the composition of the liquid at low extents of melting can be extremely challenging (e.g., Baker and Stolper 1994). Secondly, exploring the multiphase saturation regions using high-pressure crystallization experiments on basalts with variable compositions (e.g., Kinzler 1997) is a method that allows for easier analysis of melt compositions. However, the small temperature interval over which liquid and olivine? orthopyroxene? clinopyroxene? garnet coexist (often less than 10 C) is similar to the temperature reproducibility of the piston cylinder technique. The third reason for the paucity of experimental data is that the high-pressure crystallization liquid lines of decent in basaltic systems follow peritectic saturation boundaries leading to the garnet lherzolite equilibrium. Thus, crystallizing liquids frequently miss the garnet lherzolite equilibrium if the mineral in reaction with liquid is exhausted. A fourth and final reason is that the pressure temperature range of garnet lherzolite stability is near the limit of that accessible with piston cylinder experimental techniques. This paper addresses these experimental obstacles with new experiments of garnet lherzolite-saturated liquids and uses them along with published experimental data to explore the influence of pressure, temperature and variations in major element source compositions on garnet lherzolite melting. We develop a model for garnet lherzolite melting of compositionally variable (metasomatized, primitive and depleted) mantle that follows the approach of Kinzler and Grove (1992a, b). The experimental results presented here expand the data set of garnet lherzolite melts by *30 % and include a wider range of bulk compositions. Along with exploring the influence of mantle metasomatism and melt depletion on the compositions of garnet lherzolite facies melts, we provide a technique that uses major element information to discriminate mantle lherzolite melts from melts of pyroxenite and carbonated lherzolite. We apply the model to understand melting processes recorded in alkali lavas from the Tibetan plateau and the range of lava compositions erupted from Kilauea, Hawaii. Experimental and analytical methods Starting material A modified version of the olivine leucitite (BB-107) from the experiments of Holbig and Grove (2008) was used as a starting material for new experiments. BB-107, a high-k, SiO 2 -undersaturated composition was strategically chosen to locate high-pressure liquids saturated with olivine (oliv)? orthopyroxene (opx)? high Ca clinopyroxene (cpx)? garnet (gar). The composition of BB-107 was first adjusted for the effects of high-pressure fractional crystallization by the numerical iterative addition of the relevant high-pressure fractionating assemblage in 1 % by weight increments. The high-pressure fractionating assemblage is 0.15 oliv? 0.85 cpx as determined by Holbig and Grove (2008), and the calculation iterations were carried out until the modified BB-107 composition would be in equilibrium with Fo 90 olivine. This fractionation-adjusted composition was then compared to a garnetspinel lherzolite-saturated liquid (L69) from Kinzler (1997) with much lower alkali contents and was used to determine a hybrid composition (BBGtOpx) with Mg/(Mg? Fe) major element characteristics of L69 and the high alkali and P 2 O 5 contents of the Tibetan olivine leucitite. BBGtOpx was prepared as a starting material by adding natural minerals to create the predicted bulk composition. The bulk composition of BBGtOpx, the basalt (BB-107) and natural minerals used in creating BBGtOpx are reported along with the experimental results (see Tables 1, 2). Piston cylinder experiments The melting experiments were carried out from 2.2 to 2.8 GPa and 1,380 1,480 C in a 0.5-inch solid-medium piston cylinder device (Boyd and England 1960). The pressure medium was BaCO 3 and pressure was calibrated using the Ca-Tschermak breakdown reaction (Hays 1967) and the garnet to spinel phase transition in the CMAS-6 bulk composition of Longhi (2005). The temperature was monitored and controlled using a W 97 Re 3 - W 75 Re 25 thermocouple and corrected for a temperature difference of 20 C between the hotter center of the run assembly and the colder position of the thermocouple that is offset above the center. The temperature was not corrected for the effect of pressure on the thermocouple EMF. The run temperature was maintained by a Eurotherm 818 controller to ±2 C, and we judge temperature reproducibility to be ±10 C. Nominally anhydrous experiments were performed in a graphite capsule machined from dense high-purity Specpure TM graphite rods. The starting material (*0.04 g)? graphite capsule assembly was dried for 12 h at 125 C,
Contrib Mineral Petrol (2013) 166:887 910 889 Table 1 Experimental conditions for BBGtopx Run# P (GPa) T ( C) t (h) wt% Mg# Gl Cpx Opx Ol Sp Gt Gl Cpx Opx Ol Sp Gt C275 2.2 1,440 24 100 C279 2.2 1,420 24.7 95(2) 1.4(1) 2.5(1.2) 0.7(1) 0.77 0.91 0.91 0.83 C283 2.2 1,410 22.5 88(4) 4.6(4) 2.5(2) 3.8(2) 1.2(2) 0.73 0.88 0.89 0.89 0.80 C278 2.2 1,400 21.5 78(3) 22(2) 6(1) 4(1) -9(4) 0.69 0.86 0.87 0.79 0.81 C273 2.4 1,470 25 100 C272 2.4 1,440 23 82(4) 7(4) 2(2) 2.1(2) 7(3) 0.72 0.88 0.90 0.88 0.84 C276 2.4 1,420 24 60(10) 16(12) 4(8) 17(8) 0.72 0.89 0.90 0.85 C286 2.4 1,415 9 80(2) 8(1) 4(0) 8(1) 0.71 0.88 0.88 0.83 C282 2.4 1,410 23.8 68(3) 9(3) 2.2(2) 1.8(1.8) 19(2) 0.72 0.88 0.90 0.89 0.83 C271 2.4 1,400 24 49(5) 24(4) 2(1) 23(3) 0.65 0.85 0.85 0.79 C270 2.6 1,480 25 100 C274 2.6 1,440 28 76(3) 10(3) 2.4(2) 12(2) 0.74 0.88 0.90 0.84 C285 2.6 1,435 9.5 65(2) 17(1) 17(1) 0.69 0.87 0.82 C284 2.6 1,430 24.7 73(7) 10(5) 3(2) 15(4) 0.72 0.88 0.89 0.84 C277 2.6 1,400 28.2 54(3) 23(2) 3(1) 21(2) 0.67 0.86 0.86 0.80 C299 2.8 1,460 23 100.00 C288 2.8 1,440 23.5 73(5) 6(3) 18(3) 0.72 0.88 0.71 Run# P (GPa) T ( C) t (h) KD a Fe loss b ssr Cpx Opx Ol Sp Gt C275 2.2 1,440 24 C279 2.2 1,420 24.7 0.33 0.33 0.68-5 0.08 C283 2.2 1,410 22.5 0.36 0.32 0.33 0.66-1.2 0.02 C278 2.2 1,400 21.5 0.36 0.33 0.60 0.51-0.30 0.40 C273 2.4 1,470 25 C272 2.4 1,440 23 0.34 0.29 0.33 0.49 4.5 0.04 C276 2.4 1,420 24 0.32 0.29 0.46-2.6 5.10 C286 2.4 1,415 9 0.35 0.32 0.52-0.79 0.59 C282 2.4 1,410 23.8 0.35 0.30 0.31 0.53 4.50 0.04 C271 2.4 1,400 24 0.33 0.32 0.49-1.6 2.20 C270 2.6 1,480 25 C274 2.6 1,440 28 0.38 0.31 0.55-5 0.09 C285 2.6 1,435 9.5 0.33 0.49-3.3 0.34 C284 2.6 1,430 24.7 0.34 0.34 0.51-10 2.2 C277 2.6 1,400 28.2 0.32 0.32 0.50-5.5 0.97 C299 2.8 1,460 23 C288 2.8 1,440 23.5 0.36 0.59 1.0 0.38 See Table 2 for abbreviations. Runs C279, C283, C272, C282 and C274 used LIME technique of Krawczynski and Olive (2011) ssr sum of squares of the residual a KD = (XFextl*XMgliq)/(XMgxtl*XFeliq) b Apparent loss or gain of FeO estimated as 100*(FeOcalc - FeOstarting material)/feostarting material placed in a Pt capsule and welded shut. This capsule assembly was surrounded by an Al 2 O 3 ceramic cylinder and centered in the hot spot of a graphite heater, using MgO spacers. The furnace assembly design was similar to that used by Hesse and Grove (2003), but the graphite capsule was modified. A capsule with thicker walls and a smaller interior volume *1-mm-diameter hole and 1 mm in length was utilized. The thicker walls reduced cracking of the capsule, which leads to Fe loss when the melt comes into contact with the outer Pt jacket.
890 Contrib Mineral Petrol (2013) 166:887 910 Table 2 Compositions of mineral and liquid phases in BBGtopx experiments P (kbar) T ( C) Run # / N SiO 2 TiO 2 Al 2 O 3 Cr 2 O 3 FeO MnO 22 1,420 C279 gl 12 46.6(1) 0.86(4) 15.6(0) 0.21(2) 7.16(14) 0.19(2) opx 19 54.0(5) 0.09(2) 6.22(72) 0.93(10) 5.36(14) 0.16(3) ol 9 41.0(1) 0.01(1) 0.14(3) 0.14(2) 8.61(12) 0.16(2) sp 7 0.42(4) 0.16(2) 52.9(6) 16.4(6) 7.84(1) 0.16(3) 22 1,410 C283 gl 20 45.7(2) 0.92(8) 15.7(1) 0.11(2) 8.21(19) 0.18(2) cpx 19 52.1(1) 0.20(2) 7.74(39) 0.93(8) 4.97(25) 0.18(3) opx 24 53.6(6) 0.12(2) 7.21(59) 0.79(5) 6.36(12) 0.16(3) ol 7 40.5(4) 0.02(1) 0.11(3) 0.13(2) 10.6(1) 0.19(2) sp 6 0.31(4) 0.17(1) 56.2(2) 14.0(6) 9.04(18) 0.13(1) 22 1,400 C278 gl 10 46.3(4) 1.01(6) 16.3(1) 0.10(2) 8.98(8) 0.19(3) cpx 18 51.2(5) 0.31(7) 8.40(44) 0.61(15) 5.79(73) 0.18(4) ol 11 40.0(5) 0.01(2) 0.14(2) 0.08(3) 12.5(2) 0.18(2) gt 7 41.9(3) 0.34(2) 23.3(2) 0.92(6) 7.94(9) 0.29(4) sp 8 0.40(5) 0.17(2) 59.4(4) 9.53(14) 10.1(2) 0.11(2) 24 1,440 C272 gl 11 47.7(4) 0.94(7) 15.3(4) 0.12(2) 8.75(37) 0.17(2) cpx 18 52.6(3) 0.20(3) 7.33(29) 0.84(11) 5.19(30) 0.18(2) opx 17 54.1(3) 0.11(2) 6.63(45) 0.72(5) 6.29(9) 0.16(3) gt 8 42.3(2) 0.30(4) 23.4(2) 1.46(13) 6.74(11) 0.28(2) ol 9 40.5(3) 0.03(1) 0.15(4) 0.11(1) 11.2(2) 0.13(2) 24 1,420 C276 gl 13 47.6(3) 0.89(8) 15.7(3) 0.09(4) 7.29(27) 0.16(4) cpx 10 52.1(4) 0.22(2) 7.54(44) 0.54(35) 4.60(26) 0.18(2) opx 19 53.5(5) 0.12(2) 7.19(42) 0.71(13) 6.10(17) 0.16(3) gt 10 42.2(1) 0.32(3) 23.3(1) 1.39(6) 6.32(10) 0.28(2) 24 1,415 C286 gl 15 45.6(5) 0.96(6) 15.1(2) 0.11(3) 8.94(30) 0.17(2) cpx 22 52.3(4) 0.25(2) 7.65(24) 0.90(9) 5.04(23) 0.17(3) ol 9 40.5(3) 0.03(1) 0.15(4) 0.11(1) 11.2(2) 0.13(2) gt 12 42.3(2) 0.25(1) 23.6(2) 1.22(22) 7.58(44) 0.30(3) 24 1,410 C282 gl 10 45.3(2) 1.18(7) 15.9(1) 0.09(2) 8.00(9) 0.16(2) cpx 21 52.2(4) 0.27(4) 7.71(32) 0.62(5) 4.82(23) 0.16(2) opx 8 53.1(2.0) 0.12(3) 4.80(51) 0.37(5) 6.96(41) 0.13(2) ol 5 40.3(1) 0.21(8) 0.07(1) 10.3(2) 0.18(1) gt 9 41.9(2) 0.28(6) 23.5(1) 1.01(10) 7.38(34) 0.29(4) 24 1,400 C271 gl 12 47.0(2) 1.23(6) 15.1(1) 0.07(2) 9.84(20) 0.17(3) cpx 17 52.6(4) 0.30(3) 7.26(32) 0.51(3) 6.15(18) 0.17(2) ol 6 39.9(4) 0.01(1) 0.14(1) 0.06(2) 14.0(2) 0.19(2) gt 7 41.7(4) 0.44(14) 23.5(1) 0.85(7) 8.46(24) 0.29(2) 26 1,440 C274 gl 18 46.4(4) 0.94(9) 14.7(4) 0.11(4) 8.23(37) 0.15(3) cpx 18 53.3(4) 0.20(1) 6.82(32) 0.63(3) 4.99(17) 0.18(2) opx 14 55.1(3) 0.10(2) 4.86(14) 0.35(3) 6.32(9) 0.14(2) gt 11 41.9(3) 0.31(4) 23.5(2) 1.22(8) 7.03(38) 0.27(3) 26 1,435 C285 gl 23 45.3(3) 1.06(8) 14.5(3) 0.07(2) 9.46(22) 0.18(2) cpx 20 52.4(3) 0.27(5) 7.28(27) 0.58(9) 5.08(26) 0.16(2) gt 15 42.3(1) 0.21(6) 23.9(2) 0.98(6) 7.81(38) 0.30(4) 26 1,430 C284 gl 10 45.2(2) 1.11(7) 14.3(2) 0.12(2) 8.08(19) 0.18(3) cpx 19 52.8(3) 0.23(2) 7.23(30) 0.62(7) 4.83(24) 0.17(3) ol 6 41.0(3) 0.02(1) 0.26(11) 0.10(2) 10.6(1) 0.11(2) gt 9 42.0(2) 0.31(5) 23.5(2) 1.14(9) 7.15(36) 0.25(2) 26 1,400 C277 gl 12 45.3(2) 1.31(7) 14.9(1) 0.05(1) 9.35(1) 0.18(2) cpx 18 51.7(4) 0.35(5) 8.05(92) 0.42(12) 5.13(38) 0.14(2)
Contrib Mineral Petrol (2013) 166:887 910 891 Table 2 continued P (kbar) T ( C) Run # / N SiO 2 TiO 2 Al 2 O 3 Cr 2 O 3 FeO MnO ol 6 40.3(4) 0.15(4) 0.06(1) 13.0(3) 0.18(2) gt 7 42.1(5) 0.44(7) 23.8(2) 0.59(15) 7.99(19) 0.29(1) 28 1,440 C288 qgl 38 46.3(1.4) 1.28(16) 13.9(1.6) 0.06(6) 9.03(67) 0.18(3) cpx 10 52.4(4) 0.28(5) 7.36(49) 0.49(6) 4.75(7) 0.14(1) gt 7 41.7(4) 0.17(10) 23.6(1) 0.95(13) 8.09(37) 0.33(2) BBGtopx 44.57 0.85 14.76 0.33 8.42 0.2 BB107 45.47 1.26 12.56 0 9.03 0.16 garnet 42.4 0.16 23.7 1.06 8.14 0.31 opx 56.1 0.15 3.4 0.42 6.32 0.11 P (kbar) T ( C) Run # / N MgO CaO Na 2 O K 2 O P 2 O 5 Total 22 1,420 C279 gl 12 13.7(1) 9.40(9) 2.28(15) 2.11(5) 0.73(7) 98.9 opx 19 31.4(3) 2.19(6) 0.16(3) 100.4 ol 9 50.3(5) 0.27(1) 100.6 sp 7 22.0(1) 0.13(1) 100.0 22 1,410 C283 gl 20 12.5(1) 9.10(8) 2.42(14) 2.48(3) 1.01(5) 98.3 cpx 19 21.1(6) 12.6(6) 0.73(4) 100.5 opx 24 30.2(3) 2.14(12) 0.15(3) 100.8 ol 7 48.1(3) 0.29(5) 99.9 sp 6 20.9(6) 0.07(2) 0.01(1) 0.05(4) 100.8 22 1,400 C278 gl 10 11.2(2) 8.35(10) 2.77(14) 2.78(8) 0.97(8) 99.0 cpx 18 20.0(9) 13.0(1.5) 0.84(14) 100.3 ol 11 47.7(2) 0.28(2) 100.9 gt 7 19.5(5) 5.93(11) 0.02(1) 100.1 sp 8 20.9(2) 0.12(2) 100.8 24 1,440 C272 gl 11 12.4(6) 9.03(5) 2.47(27) 2.16(52) 0.96(8) 100.1 cpx 18 21.9(6) 11.6(8) 0.77(5) 100.6 opx 17 30.5(2) 2.18(7) 0.17(3) 100.9 gt 8 19.4(2) 5.40(2) 0.01(1) 99.2 ol 9 47.7(4) 0.36(9) 100.2 24 1,420 C276 gl 13 10.6(8) 8.43(72) 2.66(31) 3.24(73) 1.14(8) 97.8 cpx 10 20.9(5) 12.9(9) 0.91(5) 99.9 opx 19 30.5(4) 2.11(10) 0.19(3) 100.5 gt 10 20.0(8) 5.92(1) 99.7 24 1,415 C286 gl 15 12.4(4) 8.93(4) 2.70(30) 2.64(34) 1.22(15) 98.8 cpx 22 20.0(5) 13.8(7) 0.90(5) 101.1 ol 9 47.7(4) 0.36(9) 100.2 gt 12 20.3(3) 5.45(63) 101.0 24 1,410 C282 gl 10 11.64(20) 8.14(12) 3.42(38) 3.40(8) 1.36(10) 97.3 cpx 21 20.0(4) 13.8(6) 1.01(1) 100.6 opx 8 33.6(1.9) 1.14(16) 0.14(1) 100.4 ol 5 48.4(2) 0.38(6) 0.01(1) 99.9 gt 9 20.1(3) 5.53(23) 0.04(1) 100.0 24 1,400 C271 gl 12 10.3(1) 7.56(8) 3.19(14) 3.78(4) 1.52(1) 99.7 cpx 17 19.4(3) 13.3(4) 1.04(5) 100.7 ol 6 45.9(9) 0.28(2) 0.02(2) 100.6 gt 7 18.0(3) 5.80(39) 0.03(1) 99.0 26 1,440 C274 gl 18 11.6(1.27) 8.25(90) 2.91(49) 3.21(83) 1.26(11) 97.9 cpx 18 21.2(4) 12.6(4) 0.96(4) 100.9
892 Contrib Mineral Petrol (2013) 166:887 910 Table 2 continued P (kbar) T ( C) Run # / N MgO CaO Na 2 O K 2 O P 2 O 5 Total opx 14 32.5(3) 0.88(11) 0.09(2) 100.4 gt 11 20.2(7) 5.47(17) 0.02(2) 99.9 26 1,435 C285 gl 23 12.1(8) 8.34(68) 2.91(33) 3.33(78) 1.28(7) 98.5 cpx 20 19.5(7) 14.3(7) 1.09(11) 100.7 gt 15 20.2(2) 5.22(37) 100.9 26 1,430 C284 gl 10 11.7(3) 8.39(7) 3.82(55) 2.93(20) 1.22(7) 97.1 cpx 19 20.4(5) 13.6(7) 0.96(8) 100.8 ol 6 47.5(5) 0.51(11) 100.1 gt 9 20.4(3) 5.68(24) 100.4 26 1,400 C277 gl 12 10.7(3) 7.58(8) 4.10(23) 4.12(10) 1.65(9) 99.3 cpx 18 18.4(4) 14.5(7) 1.30(14) 100.0 ol 6 46.2(4) 0.32(8) 100.2 gt 7 18.2(1) 6.02(18) 0.04(1) 99.4 28 1,440 C288 qgl 38 13.2(1.8) 9.7(1.2) 2.47(65) 2.1(1.1) 1.25(19) 99.4 cpx 10 19.3(3) 14.7(3) 1.31(3) 100.7 gt 7 19.9(4) 5.35(54) 0.07(4) 100.1 BBGtopx 14.85 9.07 2.12 2.48 0.97 100 BB107 10.43 12.25 3.35 3.94 1.55 garnet 20.7 4.74 0 0 0 opx 33.9 0.66 0.14 0 0 Each analysis shows one standard deviation of the average of replicate analyses in terms of least units cited. Thus, 46.6(1) should be read 46.6 ± 0.1 gl glass, opx orthopyroxene, ol olivine, sp spinel, cpx clinopyroxene, gt garnet, qgl glass? quench crystals, N number of analyses Experimental assemblies were first pressurized to 1.0 GPa at room temperature conditions. This pressure was maintained while the sample was heated at a rate of 100 C/min to 865 C and held at this temperature for 6 min. After 3 min at 865 C, the pressure was raised to the final run pressure. The temperature was then increased by 50 C/min to the run temperature and the pressure was frequently monitored and adjusted to the desired final experimental pressure. The pressure was held constant using the piston-in technique (Johannes et al. 1971). After *24 28 h, the experiments were quenched by turning off the output power. The oxygen fugacity of our experiments has not been measured directly. Médard et al. (2008) have measured conditions of 1 2 log units below the quartz fayalite magnetite buffer for the piston cylinder assemblies used in our laboratory. Electron microprobe analysis All quenched experiments were cut in half, mounted in epoxy and polished. The samples were then carbon coated and analyzed on the MIT JEOL-JXA-733 Superprobe, using wavelength-dispersive spectrometry with a 10 na beam current and an accelerating voltage of 15 kv. For glass analyses, the beam diameter was set to *10 lm, and Na was counted at the beginning of the analysis for 5 s. Other elements were measured for up to 40 s, depending on abundance level. Analytical precision can be inferred from replicate analyses of glass working standards (Gaetani and Grove 1998). One standard deviation of the average of replicate glass analyses for each oxide expressed as relative percent of oxides is SiO 2 = 0.4 %, Al 2 O 3 = 0.9 %, CaO = 1.5 %, MgO = 1.5 %, FeO = 1.4 %, MnO = 8.1 %, P 2 O 5 = 5%, Na 2 O = 1.9 %, and K 2 O = 1.1 % based on 289 individual measurements over 28 analytical sessions. The CITZAF correction package of Armstrong (1995) was used to reduce the data and to obtain quantitative analysis. The atomic number correction of Duncumb and Reed, Heinrich s tabulation of absorption coefficients, and the fluorescence correction of Reed were used to obtain a quantitative analysis as outlined in Armstrong (1995). Experimental results Experiments with the hybrid starting material (BBGtOpx) were conducted at 2.2 2.8 GPa and 1,380 1,480 C (Fig. 1). The conditions for these experiments are presented in Table 1 and compositions of the experimental products are found in Table 2. Two of the experiments at 2.4 GPa show simultaneous saturation of the melt with
Contrib Mineral Petrol (2013) 166:887 910 893 A 1480 1460 liquid multiply sat. ol-cpx-sp/gt opx-cpx-gt ol-opx-sp glass T C (meas) 1440 1420 1400 opx gt B T C (corr) 1380 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 1480 1460 1440 1420 1400 ol-opx-sp ol-cpx-sp-gt liquid multiple sat. ol-cpx-sp/gt opx-cpx-gt ol-opx-sp P GPa liquid opx-cpx-gt ol-cpx-gt 1380 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 P GPa P-T space for multiple saturation Fig. 1 Pressure temperature conditions of experiments on the BBGtOpx compositions. a Uncorrected experimental results. b Temperature-corrected data using the 2.2 GPa experimental results and liquid Mg# in the 2.4 and 2.6 GPa experiments. Adjusting temperature of the 2.4 and 2.6 experiments results in the expected phase appearance sequence (see text and Fig. 3). A field for the garnet lherzolitesaturated liquids is shown in gray olivine (oliv), orthopyroxene (opx), clinopyroxene (cpx) and garnet (gar) and in one experiment, at 2.2 GPa, spinel is present with liquid? oliv? opx? cpx. Figure 2 shows a back-scattered electron image of one of the multiply saturated experiments; sample C282 (2.4 GPa, 1,410 C), in which the melt is saturated with the complete garnet lherzolite assemblage (oliv? opx? cpx? gar). The phase diagram for the BBGtOpx starting material is shown in Fig. 1a. Melt is saturated with a garnet lherzolite assemblage over the interval of 1,400 1,415 C at 2.2 GPa and at *1,430 C at 2.6 GPa. Melt is saturated with a spinel lherzolite assemblage (oliv? opx? cpx? spinel) at 1,410 C at 2.2 GPa. The temperature range over which cpx + oliv 0.2 mm Fig. 2 Experimental run product multiply saturated with a garnet lherzolite assemblage (oliv? opx? cpx? gar). Crystalline phases and glass segregate in the small temperature gradient (\7 C) across the capsule. Melt is quenched to a glass at the upper hot end of the capsule, and a region of quench crystals grew during quenching in the vicinity of the minerals at the colder end of the capsule. Dark outer margin is the graphite capsule and dark lines across the capsule are epoxy-filled cracks the experimental melts are saturated with a garnet lherzolite assemblage shrinks as pressure increases. At 2.8 GPa, cpx? gar are present at 1,440 C (C288, Tables 1, 2) and the liquidus is located between 1,440 and 1,460 C (C299). At 2.8 GPa, crystallization of cpx? gar move the residual liquids away from the garnet lherzolite multiple saturation equilibrium. In this study, it was necessary to place experiments at temperature intervals of 5 10 C, an interval that is close to or below our reproducibility of 10 C, in order to cover the short temperature interval over which the five-phase equilibrium occurs and to locate the key phase boundaries. The phase appearance sequence with decreasing temperature in the 2.2 GPa experiments (Fig. 1) changes from oliv? opx? sp to oliv? opx? cpx? sp and finally to oliv? cpx? sp. This is the expected change in phase appearance as a melt passes through the fourphase equilibrium saturation with oliv? opx? cpx? sp at pressures above *2 GPa (Kinzler 1997). The mineral and melt compositions also change in a systematic manner. This is illustrated in Fig. 3 where liquid Mg# is plotted versus temperature and follows a linear trend. The 2.4 and 2.6 GPa experiments do not show the same phase appearance sequence and systematic changes with decreasing temperature. Therefore, we used the variations in the 2.2 GPa liquid compositions with temperature to estimate more precisely the temperatures of the 2.4 and 2.6 GPa experiments. This was accomplished by fitting a line by visual inspection to the 2.2 GPa experiments and then
894 Contrib Mineral Petrol (2013) 166:887 910 T C 1450 1440 1430 1420 1410 1400 2.2 GPa 2.4 GPa 2.6 GPa 2.4 corr 2.6 corr. C277 C285 C272 C282 1390 0.64 0.66 0.68 0.7 0.72 0.74 0.76 0.78 Mg# liquid fitting a line of the same slope to three of the 2.4 GPa experiments and two of the 2.6 GPa experiments (Fig. 3). These two lines were chosen a priori to be equally spaced in temperature since the experiments were equally spaced in pressure and with slopes parallel to that defined by the 2.2 GPa experiments (C278, C279 and C283). The two lines were used to adjust the accepted temperatures of the remaining 2.4 and 2.6 GPa experiments. When the corrected temperatures are used for these 2.4 and 2.6 GPa experiments, the phase diagram (Fig. 1b) illustrates the appropriate change in phase assemblage with temperature. At 2.4 and 2.6 GPa, there is a high-temperature mineral assemblage of opx? cpx? gar followed by a multiple saturation field of oliv? opx? cpx? gar. On the low temperature side of the multiple saturation field, the mineral assemblage is oliv? cpx? gar. The mineral phases in all the experiments are compacted at the bottom of the capsule (Fig. 2); a phenomenon that we assume is caused by chemical diffusion and relative migration of phases due to a thermal gradient (Walker and Agee 1988). The hot spot of the assembly used lies on the uppermost part of the capsule; the bottom of the capsule is *7 C colder (Médard et al. 2008). Mass balance and approach to equilibrium 2.2GPa trend Fig. 3 Measured Mg# of glasses in the BBGtOpx experiments. The 2.2 GPa trend of Mg# versus temperature was used to correct the temperature of the 2.4 and 2.6 GPa experiments For each experiment, we used a mass balance technique to estimate phase proportions and to determine whether the bulk composition of the experimental sample had remained constant. A linear regression of the compositions of the phases analyzed in each experiment and the bulk composition of the starting material provided estimates of phase proportions. For experiments containing oliv and opx, linear regression commonly yields negative coefficients for one of these two phases. Therefore, we used the regression technique of Krawczynski and Olive (2011) to estimate phase proportions for those experiments. The comparison of the experiment s bulk composition to the bulk composition of the starting material suggests there was no significant loss or gain (\5 %) of any element (Table 1). It is not possible to definitively prove that experiments achieved chemical equilibrium. This would require reversal experiments for all possible compositional changes in all phases. However, for the reasons outlined below, we conclude that the experiments approached equilibrium sufficiently to allow us to understand the crystallization behavior at multiple phase saturation. Although the phase appearances have not been reversed, it has been demonstrated that direct synthesis is sufficient to recover equilibrium phase appearance temperatures in experiments with [40 wt% melt (Grove and Bence 1977). Furthermore, we maintained constant sample composition with generally less than 5 % relative gain of FeO in the bulk sample (Table 1), an important prerequisite for an approach to equilibrium. We also achieved regular and consistent partitioning of major elements between crystalline phases and melt, an additional prerequisite for approaching equilibrium (Table 1). The compositions of opx and gar that grew during the experiments (Table 2) are all substantially different than the compositions of the natural minerals (also reported in Table 2, bottom) that were added to adjust the BBGtOpx composition. The 17 experiments reported here vary from above the liquidus to experimental products containing more than 49 wt% melt (Table 1). Glass in each experiment is homogenous judging from the small standard deviations of replicate analyses of glass (Table 2). The Ca, Al and Ti contents of clinopyroxenes in our experiments are comparable to those from longer-duration multiple saturation experiments using basaltic compositions (Gaetani and Grove 1998; Kinzler 1997). The Fe Mg distribution coefficients K DFe Mg (where K DFe Mg = [X Fe * X liq Mg ]/ liq ]) are close to constant in these xtl experiments [X xtl Mg *X Fe (Table 1). The mean Fe Mg partition coefficient K DFe Mg between olivine and melt is 0.32 (±0.01). The K DFe Mg (cpx liq) for clinopyroxene is 0.34 (±0.02). The K DFe Mg (opx - liq) for orthopyroxene is 0.31 (±0.02). The K DFe Mg (garnet - liq) and K DFe Mg (spinel - liq) are 0.51 (±0.02) and 0.65 (±0.04), respectively, similar to values reported by Kinzler (1997). At these high temperatures ([1,400 C) with large amounts of melt present, the consistent partitioning and minor element composition of solid phases observed in our experiments indicate that the experimental phases are close enough to equilibrium to aid in the understanding garnet lherzolite melting.
Contrib Mineral Petrol (2013) 166:887 910 895 Discussion Locating garnet lherzolite-saturated liquids The experiments carried out in this study, when combined with published experimental data allow us to determine the pressure temperature conditions under which liquid is saturated with a garnet lherzolite assemblage (oliv? opx? cpx? gar) and the conditions of the spinel to garnet lherzolite transition. The nature of the melting reaction at the high-pressure limit of spinel stability and in the garnet stability field has been characterized in several studies (Kinzler 1997; Kinzler and Grove 1999; Longhi 1995, 2002) and is a peritectic: Olivine þ Clinopyroxene þ Garnet ðor SpinelÞ ¼ Orthopyroxene þ Liquid ð1þ During down-temperature crystallization of basalt in equilibrium with a garnet lherzolite assemblage, the liquid composition remains saturated with all the solid phases at this multiple saturation point (MSP) in composition space, until either orthopyroxene (opx) or liquid is consumed. When opx is exhausted, the melt leaves the MSP and moves along the oliv? cpx? spinel/gar boundary. This behavior has been replicated in several experimental studies of garnet/spinel lherzolite melting. Walter (1998) located liquids saturated with oliv? opx? cpx? gar at 4 and 6 GPa (see Walter 1998; Fig. 2) and found a low temperature assemblage at both of these pressures (oliv? cpx? gar) similar to the one in our study. Longhi (2002) published experiments from 2.4 to 3.4 GPa and used the existing literature data (Kinzler 1997; Walter and Presnall 1994) to develop a model for melting of garnet lherzolite. Barr and Grove (2013) and this present study have generated 7 additional garnet lherzolite-saturated assemblages. This doubles the number of experiments reported since Longhi (2002) and brings the total number of experimental determination of garnet lherzolite-saturated experimental liquids to 29. As outlined above, there are two main reasons why so few garnet lherzolite-saturated liquids are reported in the literature. The first is the short temperature interval over which the assemblage oliv? opx? cpx? gar? liquid is stable in a single bulk composition, often less than 10 C, which is smaller than the temperature reproducibility of the piston cylinder technique. This leads to the situation where a reported liquid composition is actually the average of two experiments that bracket the MSP, as is the case for two of the three liquid compositions reported in Longhi (2002) and one liquid reported in this study. The second reason is that the MSP is peritectic and the three- and four-phase saturation boundaries leading to the MSP (oliv? opx? cpx and oliv? opx? gar) are peritectic (subtraction) Opx + Cpx Oliv + Cpx 1 Oliv + Opx boundaries (Longhi 2002; Barr and Grove 2013). To achieve saturation with the garnet lherzolite assemblage Barr and Grove (2013) adjusted the composition of their starting material as illustrated schematically in Fig. 4. Crystallization experiments will only reach the MSP with decreasing temperature if the bulk composition of the starting material contains enough of the reacting phase so that oliv and/or opx are not consumed while the liquid is on the oliv? opx? cpx boundary. If a phase is consumed, the liquid leaves the three-phase boundary and misses the MSP. Both of these reasons contribute to the difficulty of locating the garnet lherzolite MSP. The small temperature interval over which liquid is saturated with the garnet lherzolite assemblage is a distinctive characteristic of garnet lherzolite melts and such behavior has not been observed in natural compositions in equilibrium with plagioclase and spinel lherzolite assemblages (Kinzler and Grove 1992a, b; Kinzler 1997; Till et al. 2012). Another consequence of the peritectic nature of the oliv? opx? cpx boundary and the oliv? opx? cpx? gar MSP is that the presence of opx on the solidus depends on the bulk composition of the lherzolite. Takahashi (1986) and Walter (1998) found that opx was not on the solidus of their lherzolite melting experiments in the pressure range of [3 7 GPa. This is because the composition of the MSP liquid and cpx vary with pressure and temperature, with cpx becoming less Ca-rich and thus more abundant on a 2 MSP Fig. 4 Schematic three-dimensional representation of the five-phase saturation point (MSP) and four-phase boundary curves and threephase surfaces in n-dimensional composition space. The oliv? opx? cpx boundary is a reaction boundary and slight changes in bulk composition change the path followed during crystallization. Lines depict crystallization paths. Single arrows indicate subtraction paths and double arrows indicate reaction paths. Opx reacts out in bulk composition 1 and the crystallization path misses the MSP. For bulk composition 2, opx remains and the crystallization path reaches the MSP
896 Contrib Mineral Petrol (2013) 166:887 910 modal basis as pressure and temperature increase. Therefore, two different types of melting and crystallization sequences are possible depending on pressure and the lherzolite bulk composition as discussed by Longhi (2002; see his Fig. 11). If the bulk composition plots within the oliv - opx - cpx - gar four-phase region, the first melt will be saturated with oliv? opx? cpx? gar, but if the lherzolite bulk composition plots outside of the oliv? opx? cpx? gar four-phase region, the first melt will be saturated with oliv? cpx? gar. This observation implies that near solidus melts of a range of lherzolite compositions produced at certain P T conditions ([3 GPa) could be difficult to differentiate from pyroxenite melts, because the only pyroxene in the residue is cpx. Melting systematics of the BBGtOpx composition Oliv 2.2 GPa phase boundary Cpx Opx In the BBGtOpx composition studied here, the downtemperature change in phase appearance at each pressure illustrates what would be expected as the multiple saturation boundary moves through composition space with increasing pressure. The composition of a melt in equilibrium with a mantle lherzolite becomes more olivine-rich with increasing pressure (Presnall et al. 1979) and the twoand three-phase boundaries associated with the four-phase multiple saturation move through composition space in the manner illustrated in Fig. 5 (schematically shown projected into pseudo-ternary space). At a pressure of 2.2 GPa, the BBGtOpx composition initially crystallizes oliv? opx? sp. With decreasing temperature (Fig. 1b), the liquid reaches the four-phase multiple saturation boundary with oliv? opx? cpx? sp. The liquid remains saturated with all four solid phases until orthopyroxene (opx) is consumed. The melt then moves down the oliv? cpx? sp? gar boundary (Figs. 1b, 5). As pressure increases to 2.4 GPa, the multiple saturation boundary has moved to more olivine-normative compositions, resulting in a change in the liquidus phase assemblage with opx? cpx? gar crystallizing first. As temperature decreases (Fig. 1b), the melt becomes saturated with oliv? opx? cpx? gar and opx? liquid react. When opx is consumed, the melt moves away from the multiple saturation boundary along the oliv? cpx? gar boundary (Fig. 5). Garnet lherzolite melting model The garnet lherzolite-saturated liquids produced in this study were combined with other experimentally produced garnet lherzolite equilibria to develop a model for peridotite melting in the garnet stability field. A survey of the literature revealed six other studies where liquids were in equilibrium with oliv? opx? cpx? gar. Experiments from Walter and Presnall (1994), Gudfinnsson and Presnall 2.4 GPa phase boundary Oliv Cpx Opx Fig. 5 Schematic representation of the phase relations in the vicinity of the MSP for the BBGtOpx composition (gray circle). The MSP with garnet is represented by the intersection of three saturation boundaries: oliv? opx? spinel, opx? cpx? gar and cpx? oliv? gar. Path followed by liquid is shown at 2.2 and 2.4 GPa as phase boundaries move with changing pressure (1996), Kinzler (1997), Walter (1998), Longhi (2002) and Barr and Grove (2013) (Table 3) report both liquid and solid phase compositions and provide a data set of 29 experiments. Two additional studies that produced garnet lherzolite-saturated liquids (Takahashi 1986; Kushiro 1996) were excluded from the model because the inclusion of data from these studies introduced significant scatter and diminished the quality of the model fits. These two sets of experiments used lherzolitic starting materials similar to Walter (1998), so there is no reason to expect them to deviate. We suspect that there are experimental and/or analytical differences between the laboratories where the two studies were performed and the laboratories where the
Contrib Mineral Petrol (2013) 166:887 910 897 Table 3 Experiments used in garnet lherzolite melting model Data source Expt.# P (GPa) T ( C) NaK# Mg# This study C283-C278 2.2 1,405 0.350 0.710 C272 2.4 1,440 0.339 0.720 C282 2.4 1,410 0.456 0.710 C274 C284 2.6 1,435 0.384 0.731 Kinzler (1997) L69 1.9 1,416 0.169 0.740 L92 1.9 1,396 0.206 0.794 L82 2.1 1,415 0.236 0.726 L56 2.1 1,440 0.112 0.762 L58 2.1 1,430 0.163 0.667 Walter (1998) 40.07 4.0 1,610 0.156 0.769 60.05 6.0 1,755 0.145 0.820 Gudfinnsson and 3,403.11 3.4 1,580 0.161 1.000 Presnall (1996) 3,503.11 3.5 1,594 0.199 1.000 Longhi (2002) M1295 2.4 1,480 0.568 0.685 rd289 2.8 1,577 0.178 0.778 TM295 2.8 1,530 0.354 0.679 MO695 2.8 1,510 0.498 0.695 RD1099-2 2.8 1,567 0.147 0.772 RD1099-3 2.4 1,520 0.168 0.725 RD1097-7 3.4 1,635 0.203 0.763 Barr and Grove C434 2.35 1,420 0.082 0.510 (2013) C435 2.35 1,440 0.047 0.520 C436 2.6 1,460 0.031 0.480 Walter and Presnall (1994) 562-1 3.0 1,575 0.000 1.000 32.62 3.2 1,595 0.000 1.000 34.63 3.4 1,615 0.000 1.000 D&S 4.0 1,675 0.000 1.000 562-1 3.0 1,575 0.000 1.000 3,402-11 3.4 1,585 0.092 1.000 data in our model were acquired. We do not have the means to resolve these differences. Walter and Presnall (1994) and Gudfinnsson and Presnall (1996) report experiments from the mantleanalog CMAS (CaO MgO Al 2 O 3 SiO 2 ) and CMASN (CMAS? Na 2 O) systems, and all other studies used natural compositions. In Fig. 6a, the compositional variability spanned by these experimental liquids is illustrated using two key compositional variables, Mg# (molar Mg/ [Mg? Fe 2? ]) and NaK# (wt% [Na 2 O? K 2 O]/[Na 2 O? K 2 O? CaO]) that will be used in the following section to develop a model for predicting melt compositions in equilibrium with garnet lherzolite of variable composition. Also shown is the pressure range covered by the experimental data set (Fig 6b). Data coverage is concentrated on A Mg# Mg# B 1 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.4 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 1 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.5 NaK# W&P 94 K 97 WGP L 02 B&G 13 this paper 0.4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 P GPa Fig. 6 Compositional characteristics of liquids in equilibrium with garnet lherzolite (oliv? opx? cpx? gar) phase assemblage. These data were used as inputs into the regressions for mineral components, temperature and pressure. a Mg# versus NaK#. b Pressure versus Mg#. The symbols refer to the studies of Walter and Presnall (1994) (W&P), Kinzler (1997), (K 97), Walter (1998) and Gudfinnsson and Presnall (1996), (WGP), Longhi (2002), (L 02), Barr and Grove (2013), (B&G 13) and this paper an Mg# range relevant for melting of depleted and metasomatized Earth mantle compositions, and the pressures extend from the spinel/garnet stability field boundary (1.9 2.2 GPa) to a maximum pressure of 6 GPa (Fig. 6b). Mantle melting models for the natural plagioclase and spinel lherzolite have been developed by Kinzler and Grove (1992a, b), Kinzler (1997) and Till et al. (2012) by taking advantage of the constraint that four-phase CMAS peridotite-analog melting (forsterite? enstatite? diopside ± anorthite ± spinel ± pyrope) is a univariant equilibrium. Therefore, the composition and temperature of a
898 Contrib Mineral Petrol (2013) 166:887 910 pure CMAS lherzolite melt is uniquely determined if pressure is specified. These three models chose to extend the constraints provided by this low-variance equilibrium to higher variance natural composition systems, taking advantage of the constraints provided by the Gibbs method. The number of compositional degrees of freedom in the natural lherzolite system is given by the Gibbs phase rule (F = c? 2 - U), where F is the number of degrees of freedom, c is the number of components and U is the number of phases. In the lherzolite melting system U = 5, giving the F = 1 (univariant) constraint for CMAS (c = 4). Walter and Presnall (1994) developed such a model for simplified plagioclase, spinel and garnet lherzolite in the CMASN system, where the melting becomes divariant (F = 2), requiring that a compositional variable be specified in order to predict melt composition. Following this approach, Till et al. (2012) extended the univariant constraint imposed by the CMAS system into the natural system. In the garnet lherzolite model presented here, the number of components is 9 (CaO, MgO, FeO, Al 2 O 3, SiO 2, Na 2 O, K 2 O, TiO 2 and P 2 O 5 ) and there are 5 (or 6) phases involved (olivine, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene, garnet, liquid and ±spinel); therefore, the thermodynamic variance of the system is 6 (or 5). Therefore, pressure and 5 (or 4) compositional variables need to be specified to predict the compositions of natural garnet lherzolite melts. Kinzler and Grove (1992a, b), Kinzler (1997) and Till et al. (2012) have identified Mg#, NaK#, K 2 O and TiO 2 as components that systematically affect the compositions of lherzolite melts. After extensive testing of the effects of different compositional variables on garnet lherzolite melting, we found a set of 3 compositional parameters (1-Mg#, NaK# and P 2 O 5 ) and pressure (P in kilobars) that reproduced most of the experimental diversity in melt compositions for our Gibbs phase rule inspired empirical model. We chose to represent our experimental melt compositions with the oxygen-based mineral components Olivine (Oliv), Clinopyroxene (Cpx), Plagioclase (Plag) and Quartz (Qtz) following Kinzler and Grove (1992a). These components are the dependent variables in our model equations along with T ( C) and P (kbar) (Table 4). These components vary systematically from the CMAS univariant constraints and capture the important influence of Fe Mg and Ca Na K exchange on the melting equilibrium. The input major element experimental data was recalculated using the Tormey et al. (1987) mineral component model. The experimental liquids, expressed in terms of the independent variables, P, 1-Mg#, NaK# and P 2 O 5, were used to calculate the dependence of each mineral component on the independent variable using least-squares linear regression analysis. The model coefficients along with the errors on each dependent variable and the goodness of fit for each expression (r 2 ) are compiled in Table 4. Figure 7 shows Table 4 Mineral component model equations for liquids saturated with an Olivine? Orthopyroxene? Clinopyroxene? Garnet lherzolite residue Intercept (P - 1) (1-Mg#) NaK# P 2 O 5 r 2 T( C) 1,313.67 8.423-149.92 55.02-59.69 0.90 31 0.85 46 68 26 24 Oliv 0.1695 0.0053 0.2275-0.1262-0.0417 0.88 0.02 0.0005 0.03 0.04 0.02 0.01 Plag 0.7439-0.0095-0.3878 0.5626-0.12 0.93 0.03 0.0007 0.04 0.06 0.02 0.02 Cpx 0.1268 0.00148 0.0874-0.0525-0.0376 0.53 0.03 0.0006 0.04 0.05 0.02 0.02 Qtz 0.0024 0.00146 0.0146-0.4425 0.0364 0.89 0.02 0.0006 0.03 0.05 0.02 0.02 Intercept Oliv (1-Mg#) NaK# P 2 O 5 r 2 P (kbar) -17.3 146.4-38.4 19.6 4.81 0.84 5.7 15.9 5.1 7.9 3.2 2.3 Numbers in italics are errors on coefficients. r 2 = correlation coefficient, and number below is average absolute error. P in kbar the difference between the input variables (temperature, pressure and mineral components) and the values predicted by the model. A garnet lherzolite liquid barometer was also calculated using the Oliv mineral component as the independent variable following Till et al. (2012) who found that this mineral component reproduced the experimental pressures of the input data set with the smallest average error. The model coefficients for the barometer are compiled in Table 4. Spinel: garnet phase boundary The pioneering work of O Hara et al. (1971) and MacGregor (1965) established the pressure temperature conditions of the transition from spinel to garnet lherzolite facies at subsolidus conditions, and many subsequent papers have explored the pressure dependence of the transition and the influence of variable Fe/Mg and Cr 2 O 3 (see O Neill 1981 for a review of early work). At temperatures well below the anhydrous solidus (*1,000 C), the spinel/garnet boundary occurs at nearly constant pressure, but near the solidus, the boundary changes slope dramatically (Klemme and O Neill 2000; Walter and Presnall 1994; Walter 1998). Our data set on garnet lherzolite-saturated melts allows a characterization of the pressure temperature compositional dependence of this phase transition above the solidus region. The effect of variable Na 2 O on the spinel/garnet boundary is well characterized in the CMASN system, where the melting reaction is univariant (Walter and Presnall 1994). Our new experimental data, that of Barr and Grove (2013) and Walter and Presnall (1994), expands
Contrib Mineral Petrol (2013) 166:887 910 899 A 1800 predicted T C 1700 1600 1500 W&P 94 K 97 WGP L 02 B&G 13 this paper 1400 r² = 0.90 aae = 24 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 exptl. T o C B 0.7 C 0.55 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.45 model Plag 0.4 model Oliv 0.4 0.35 0.3 0.3 0.2 r² = 0.93 aae = 0.02 0.25 r² = 0.88 aae = 0.01 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 Plag 0.2 0.2 0.25 0.3 0.35 0.4 0.45 0.5 0.55 Oliv D 0.25 E 0.1 model Cpx 0.2 0.15 0.1 0.05 0-0.05-0.1 W&P 94 K 97 WGP L 02 B&G 13 this paper r² = 0.53 aae = 0.02-0.15 r² = 0.89 aae = 0.02 0.05-0.2 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25-0.2-0.15-0.1-0.05 0 0.05 0.1 Cpx model Qtz Qtz Fig. 7 Experimental versus predicted values of temperature and mineral component values for the garnet lherzolite-saturated liquids used in the temperature and mineral component models for the variation in composition of the garnet lherzolite MSP. Black line indicates 1:1 correspondence of experimental and calculated values. Symbols are the same as in Fig. 6. Values in the lower right show the square of the correlation coefficient (r 2 ) and one sigma average absolute error of the fitted values (aae)
900 Contrib Mineral Petrol (2013) 166:887 910 the compositional range to both high iron and higher Na 2 O? K 2 O compositions. The compilation of relevant experimental data includes ten experiments that contain both spinel and garnet (Table 3). We have used these to generate a model of the pressure and temperature dependence of the phase transition. We calculated the pressure and temperature dependence of the boundary for two variables (Mg# and NaK#) that previous workers have shown to exercise important controls on temperature and pressure. The expressions are: P ðin GPaÞ ¼ 1:2 0:52 ðnak# Þþ2:11 ðmg# Þ r 2 ¼ 0:81 T in C 1600 1550 1500 1450 1400 W&P 94 B&G 13 this paper T ðin CÞ ¼ 1; 250 227 ðnak# Þþ353 ðmg# Þ r 2 ¼ 0:90 The fit and the experimental data are shown in Fig. 8 along with the pressure temperature dependence of the spinel garnet phase boundary for constant NaK# (0.2) and variable Mg# (from 0.5 to 1.0). The input data fall close to the plane calculated for the phase boundary (±0.1 GPa brackets on the fit are also plotted), and the width of the phase transition in this high-variance natural system is *0.2 GPa. The experiment that plots well away from the predicted line (by 0.3 GPa) is the CMAS spinel/garnet invariant point from Walter and Presnall (1994). We have no explanation for this discrepancy, because the high-pressure temperature Mg# end of the line is defined by the Walter and Presnall (1994) experiments in CMAS? Na 2 O. A variable that cannot be explored with our garnet lherzolite liquid data is the influence of Cr 2 O 3 on the width of the transition. O Neill (1981) showed that the addition of Cr 2 O 3 created a fairly broad pressure interval over which spinel and garnet could coexist, and this is likely to be the situation when Cr-rich spinel is present in the lherzolite. Because of its refractory nature, it is likely that a Cr-rich spinel would not participate in the silicate melting reaction. At this time, there is not sufficient data above the solidus to explore this possibility, and further experimental study would be necessary in order to evaluate the effects of variable Cr 2 O 3. Conditions and compositional characteristics of peridotite melts in the garnet, spinel and plagioclase facies The garnet lherzolite melting model can be combined with melting models in the spinel and plagioclase lherzolite facies to predict the temperature and pressure of a melt of a given composition in the stability field of each lherzolite facies. These models also predict melt composition for peridotites of variable composition if pressure and compositional characteristics of the lherzolite source are specified. 1350 2 2.2 2.4 2.6 2.8 3 3.2 3.4 3.6 P in GPa Fig. 8 Pressure versus temperature plot of spinel? garnet-saturated lherzolite melts. Data are from this study, Barr and Grove (2013), Walter and Presnall (1994) (abbreviated W&P 94) and Kinzler (1997). Also shown is the fit to the supersolidus spinel to garnet lherzolite phase transition discussed in the text. The line was calculated by holding NaK# constant at 0.2 and varying the Mg# from 1.0 to 0.5. The single point that plots away from the calculated boundary is a CMAS experiment with NaK# = 0.0, Mg# = 1.0 from Walter and Presnall (1994). The remaining experimental liquids have NaK# that varies from 0.10 to 0.30. Mg# is the primary source of pressure temperature variations in this input data set, varying from 0.5 to 1.0. The 3 data used in the fit from Kinzler (1997) at 1.9 GPa are not shown on the plot Till et al. (2012) present an updated model for melting of compositionally variable plagioclase and spinel lherzolite along with a prediction of the spinel/plagioclase phase transition. In the following discussion, we will use their models along with the garnet lherzolite model presented here to explore the compositional characteristics of melts from metasomatized peridotite compositions. Correcting for fractional crystallization: an essential first step An essential first step in estimating the conditions of melting for suspected mantle derived magma is to correct for the effects of fractional crystallization that operate to evolve the magma away from its original composition. This issue has been discussed in previous papers (Kinzler and Grove 1992a, b; Kinzler 1997; Till et al. 2012) and that discussion will not be repeated here, except to emphasize that the assumptions made in correcting evolved basaltic melts for the effects of fractional crystallization can have significant effects on the temperature, pressure and composition inferred for the predicted primary melt composition. In particular, the assumption that an evolved liquid has been modified by olivine-only fractional crystallization